page_title: CGR 1st Class 4-4-0T
section_title: Metropolitan & Suburban Railway
hierarchical_section_title: CGR 1st Class 4-4-0T / Service / Metropolitan & Suburban Railway
caption_attribution_description: Cape Government Railways 1st Class 4-4-0T no. 4 (1875-1881 group) on the Metropolitan &amp; Suburban Railway (Sea Point Line) in Cape Town
context_page_description: The Cape Government Railways 1st Class 4-4-0T of 1875 was a South African steam locomotive from the pre-Union era in the Cape of Good Hope.
  In 1875, the Cape Government Railways placed seven tank locomotives with a 4-4-0 American type wheel arrangement in service on its Cape Western and Cape Midland systems. Four more entered service in 1880, but these were delivered as tank-and-tender locomotives with optional water tenders. They were the first Cape gauge mainline engines to enter service in South Africa.
context_section_description: When the Green and Seapoint Company was established in 1887 with the object to construct a private suburban railway line to Sea Point in Cape Town, two of these locomotives, numbers 3 and 4 (W3 and W4), were acquired from the CGR for use as construction engines.
  Following two bankruptcies, the line was eventually opened on 1 September 1892 by a third company, the Metropolitan and Suburban Railway Company, under the chairmanship of Mr. John Walker. The two locomotives were then employed as passenger locomotives. The line was not financially viable, however, and the Metropolitan and Suburban also went into liquidation on 19 July 1898. The railway and its operations were eventually taken over by the Cape government and the Sea Point line was re-opened by the CGR in December 1905.
caption: No. 4 on the Metropolitan & Suburban Railway, c. 1892
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